Website Content Management Michael Tucker DBA / Webmaster Forsyth County Public Library
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Dec 24, 2015
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Website Content Management
Michael Tucker DBA / WebmasterForsyth County Public Library
Many Open Source Options such as Joomla Retail Options Are Also Available Build Your Own!
Where to Begin
Website Print Release Event Advertisement
Public Computers
Catalog Facebook
DATABASE-DRIVENStaff members type information ONCE.
Information displays MULTIPLE places.
Programs Publications (Bookmarks and Brochures) Jobs General News Construction News Service Outages Menu / Links Pages Online Resources Featured Items Teen Events Fun Stuff (children’s crosswords, etc.)
What We Use Content Management Tools (CMT’s) For
IIS on Windows Server Access Databases ASP Microsoft Expression Web Vbscript
The Tools FCPL Used To Get There
Anyone with Access can edit the databases without SQL knowledge.
Cheap (check SRS, formerly MSD)! No new licenses or servers required.
Pros of Using Access Databases
Plays nice with Windows Servers / IIS. Code can be generated from web design
software.
ASP
Standards based. Allows for asp master pages to control look
of website throughout. Excellent ASP tools for database
connections and displaying data.
Microsoft Expression Web
Edit the database directly. Use Microsoft Expression Web to create an
asp page that edits your database. Create your own system.
Different Ideas For Content Management
Editing Access Database DirectlyTip: Make a copy of the database and edit the copy. Otherwise the lock will stop your WebPages from displaying correctly.
Create a new aspx page on your site. Create a new datasource pointing to the
database you want to control.
Asp Page Option
Configure the Datasource to select the primary key for the table and if needed a column that you could select from a drop down menu that would be unique to each entry.
Asp Page Option
Add a drop down list to your page and configure it to point to your datasource. Select a display and data field. The datafield should be assigned to the tables primary key.
Asp Page Option
Add an ASP button to the page.
Asp Page Option
Add a second datasource to the page making sure to select all of the columns or *
ASP Page Option
Click on the “Where” button and make your query use the value of the drop down list.
ASP Page Option
Click on the “Advanced” button and have it create insert, update, and delete statements.
Asp Page Option
Insert a Form View to your page and assign the second datasource to it.
ASP Page Option
Adjust permissions on your webserver to allow modify access in the directory where your access database file resides.
Highly recommend then putting some form of authentication on the new webpage you have created. In IIS you can use Windows Authentication, or I have also done this through ASP by hiding visibility of the dropdown and button until a username and password is entered.
ASP Page Option
ASP Page Option
At FCPL, we designed our system so that everyone who is approved to contribute to our website is given Remote Desktop rights to a system we call our Portal machine. This is the only system that has access into the DMZ in which our webserver lives. Once on this machine, the login used determines which Content Management Tools (CMTs) can be accessed. The CMTs are .hta files (written in vbscript) which allow staff to edit the approved databases.
Create Your Own Option
Warning the follow slides will contain some code. Also this is just one of many ways to go about the creation of such a tool. For those wanting to get this custom with your solution, I hope this will provide a great start and give you a few ideas.
Create Your Own Option
Create Your Own OptionMain Screen for our Programs CMT
Create Your Own OptionThe Edit and add new screen
Create Your Own OptionThe Category Link screen
<head>
<title>Online programs</title>
<HTA:APPLICATION
APPLICATIONNAME="Admin online Programs"
SCROLL="yes"
SINGLEINSTANCE="yes"
WINDOWSTATE="maximize"
>
</head>
<body bgcolor="gray">
<center>
<H1>Programs Content Management Tool</h1><br><br>
<a href=“LINKTOSHAREONWEBSERVER">Put programs here!</a> <br><br>
</table>
<span id = "DataArea"></span>
<br><br>
Check your Work: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.forsythpl.org/aboutFCPL/programsAndServices.aspx">http://www.forsythpl.org/aboutFCPL/programsAndServices.aspx</a>
</center>
</body>
Create Your Own OptionThe HTML Section of the hta file
DataArea.InnerHTML =Is used in the vbscript to update the div DataArea in the HTML
html = "<table><tr><td>" programDropDown html = html &programString &"</td></tr>" html = html &"<tr><td><input type=""button"" value=""Edit
program"" name=""editprogram"" onClick=""fillprogram""></td></tr>"
html = html &"<tr><td><input type=""button"" value=""Add New program"" name=""addNewprogram"" onClick=""emptyForm""></td></tr>" html = html &"<tr><td><input type=""button"" value=""Add/Remove Link to program"" name=""addLink"" onClick=""linkPage""></td></tr>"
html = html &"</table>"DataArea.InnerHTML = html
Create Your Own Option
driver = "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0“dataSource = "Data Source=programs.mdb“Query = "select branchNum, branch from branch
order by branch“set con = createobject("ADODB.connection")con.Provider = drivercon.ConnectionString = dataSourcecon.openset rs = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")rs.ActiveConnection = conrs.Open Query
Create Your Own OptionExample Database Connection and Query
rs.movefirstUsed to access the first record
rs.movenextTo move to the next record returned
rs.fields(0).valueWill access the first column of the record
Create Your Own Option
Full source code for our Program CMT can be found at http://www.forsythpl.org/test/demo/programs.txt
Create Your Own Option
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Programs Database in Action
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